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Word Meanings - OBSEQUIOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to obsequies; funereal. "To do obsequious sorrow." Shak. Syn. -- Compliant; obedient; servile. See Yielding. (more info) obsequi, fr. obsequi: cf. F. obséquieux, See Obsequent, and cf. 1. Promptly obedient, or submissive, to

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Of or pertaining to obsequies; funereal. "To do obsequious sorrow." Shak. Syn. -- Compliant; obedient; servile. See Yielding. (more info) obsequi, fr. obsequi: cf. F. obséquieux, See Obsequent, and cf. 1. Promptly obedient, or submissive, to the will of another; compliant; yielding to the desires of another; devoted. His servants weeping, Obsequious to his orders, bear him hither. Addison. 2. Servilely or meanly attentive; compliant to excess; cringing; fawning; as, obsequious flatterer, parasite. There lies ever in "obsequious" at the present the sense of an observance which is overdone, of an unmanly readiness to fall in with the will of another. Trench. 3. Etym:

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  • CRINGLE
    An iron or pope thimble or grommet worked into or attached to the edges and corners of a sail; -- usually in the plural. The cringles are used for making fast the bowline bridles, earings, etc. (more info) 1. A withe for fastening a gate.
  • ABJECT
    1. Cast down; low-lying. From the safe shore their floating carcasses And broken chariot wheels; so thick bestrown Abject and lost lay these, covering the flood. Milton. 2. Sunk to a law condition; down in spirit or hope; degraded; servile;
  • SERVILELY
    In a servile manner; slavishly.
  • SERVILENESS
    Quality of being servile; servility.
  • MODESTLY
    In a modest manner.
  • MENIAL
    1. A domestic servant or retainer, esp. one of humble rank; one employed in low or servile offices. 2. A person of a servile character or disposition.
  • PASSIVE FLIGHT
    Flight, such as gliding and soaring, accomplished without the use of motive power.
  • YIELDABLE
    Disposed to yield or comply. -- Yield"a*ble*ness, n. Bp. Hall.
  • SNEAK
    1. To creep or steal privately; to come or go meanly, as a person afraid or ashamed to be seen; as, to sneak away from company. imp. & p. p. "snuck" is more common now, but not even mentioned here. In MW10, simply "sneaked or snuck" You skulked
  • SEQUACIOUSNESS
    Quality of being sequacious.
  • YIELDANCE
    1. The act of producing; yield; as, the yieldance of the earth. Bp. Hall. 2. The act of yielding; concession. South.
  • TRADITIONALIST
    An advocate of, or believer in, traditionalism; a traditionist.
  • SNEAK CURRENT
    A current which, though too feeble to blow the usual fuse or to injure at once telegraph or telephone instruments, will in time burn them out.
  • ACQUIESCENTLY
    In an acquiescent manner.
  • MODESTY
    1. The quality or state of being modest; that lowly temper which accompanies a moderate estimate of one's own worth and importance; absence of self-assertion, arrogance, and presumption; humility respecting one's own merit. 2. Natural delicacy
  • YIELDING
    Inclined to give way, or comply; flexible; compliant; accommodating; as, a yielding temper. Yielding and paying , the initial words of that clause in leases in which the rent to be paid by the lessee is mentioned and reserved. Burrill. Syn. --
  • OBSEQUIOUSLY
    1. In an obsequious manner; compliantly; fawningly. Dryden. 2. In a manner appropriate to obsequies. Whilst I a while obsequiously lament The untimely fall of virtuous Lancaster. Shak.
  • COMPLIANT
    Yielding; bending; pliant; submissive. "The compliant boughs." Milton.
  • TRADITIONALLY
    In a traditional manner.
  • DUCTILE
    1. Easily led; tractable; complying; yielding to motives, persuasion, or instruction; as, a ductile people. Addison. Forms their ductile minds To human virtues. Philips. 2. Capable of being elongated or drawn out, as into wire or threads. Gold
  • YIELD
    pay, give, restore, make an offering; akin to OFries. jelda, OS. geldan, D. gelden to cost, to be worth, G. gelten, OHG. geltan to pay, restore, make an offering, be worth, Icel. gjalda to pay, give up, Dan. gielde to be worth, Sw. gälla to be
  • CATAMENIAL
    Pertaining to the catamenia, or menstrual discharges.
  • THUMBLESS
    Without a thumb. Darwin.
  • INOBEDIENT
    Not obedient; disobedient. Chaucer. -- In`o*be"di*ent*ly, adv.
  • IMPASSIVE
    Not susceptible of pain or suffering; apathetic; impassible; unmoved. Impassive as the marble in the quarry. De Quincey. On the impassive ice the lightings play. Pope. -- Im*pas"sive*ly, adv. -- Im*pas"sive*ness, n.
  • IMMODESTLY
    In an immodest manner.
  • HUMBLE
    humilis on the ground, low, fr. humus the earth, ground. See Homage, 1. Near the ground; not high or lofty; not pretentious or magnificent; unpretending; unassuming; as, a humble cottage. THy humble nest built on the ground. Cowley. 2. Thinking

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